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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main thing I notice about the “designer” clothing conversation is that people have are vicious in their judgment but I don’t think we really have a leg to stand on. It seems like we assign moral failing to brands above some spending level but I think it’s arbitrary and based in some deep dcum tribalism. People are substituting an upper middle class economic band for morality.

Like women on this site will be so mad about $900 Gucci sneakers but will have no problem with $150 Veja sneakers. But you can probably buy the same sneaker, from a utilitarian perspective, for $10 all over the world. And we can’t know how many sneakers people are buying. So why are we outraged at the $900 sneakers but not the $100 sneakers? It feels arbitrary.

I think it’s because considering the morality of our daily consumer habits would be overwhelming and exhausting. So it’s much easier to just consider anything within a band of our peer group to be morally acceptable but anything outside it to be frivolous or shallow. Harshly judging and gossiping about anything outside the band of “reasonable” reinforces the system. And it’s easy to focus on small, visible categories like clothing even though the differences are dwarfed by stuff like housing, where one person can spend $500k more than a neighbor/peer for a similar house and no one bats an eye.

But if we give it a little thought, I think we’re all being super lazy in our thinking. 
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You are 10000% right and it's one of the things that drives me nuts on DCUM (and, yes, I know it's on me that I am here enough to be driven nuts by anything). People attach such high moral value to THEIR preferred types of consumption and attach so much negative moral value to other people's preferred type of consumption. I feel like the "is it trashy to like horses?" types of threads really bring that out - and this is one of those types of threads.

You are not better than anyone else because you don't wear a recognizable bag or piece of jewelry. You just have different spending habits and taste. Your taste is not morally superior.

Except for mine, of course, because I mostly buy secondhand.[/quote]

Right? And people hate on horses but they don’t realize it’s actually one of the best ways to become poor lol. [/quote]

Oh horse people never become poor because they just rattle around in their granddad's ancient Land Rover and that one pair of jeans they've had since they were 14. jkjk but seriously all this WASP fantasy stuff is hilarious. [/quote]

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